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IT to thank for most of Radisson Hotel Group’s business initiatives

CIO

Then in March, the pandemic hit and hotel activity stopped, but it gave us the chance to accelerate the company’s transformation and digitalization process that started in 2018 with a five-year plan. How many people, then, make up Radisson’s IT area worldwide? We made everything new from scratch. How have you rebuilt all the IT talent?

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch

On Lafayette Street in SoHo, young, fashionable women lined up around the block to enter a minimalist, millennial oasis, the most perfect Instagram feed brought to life. Glossier affirmed our inherent beauty, then reminded us that we can be even more beautiful if we buy their “Boy Brow” pomade, which sold one tube every 32 seconds by 2018.

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Saiga aims to succeed where Magic and other concierge apps failed

TechCrunch

But Hermann believes that Saiga can succeed where Magic, as well as experiments like GoButler and Facebook’s M assistant , failed. “Saiga has solved key stumbling blocks that others have failed at before.” “Saiga has solved key stumbling blocks that others have failed at before.”

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Security Theater: Don’t Hang your Hat on Compliance

Prisma Clud

Organizations may prioritize actions that appear effective but fail to improve security. Prior to the 2018 introduction of GDPR, TalkTalk was fined £400,000 for their beach. Quite simply, they struggle to keep up with evolving threats. You only know about the ones that succeed. Security breaches can cost millions.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

In the summer of 2022, I joined a team of BGP experts organized by the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) to draft a comprehensive report covering the security of the internet’s routing infrastructure. Routing incidents occur with some regularity and can vary greatly in operational impact.

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Main challenges in Software Development

Apiumhub

In the software development industry, we find that as many as 50% of custom software development projects fail. Mentoring is an underutilized tool among software developers; it’s worth looking into how to set up a system for it. Hiring was the biggest challenge back in 2018 but it still accounts for the fair part of challenges.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? Why is it now subject to the same kind of antitrust complaints faced by Microsoft, once the “evil empire” of the previous generation of computing?